Example sentences of "[vb past] past [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | She moved past him to the kitchen , where she put the kettle on the gas . |
2 | Only I would have probably braked , changed down ended up in second and crept past it on the inside and then speeded up again . |
3 | As Mr Mansell hesitated , Emerson Fittipaldi from Brazil and Arie Luyendyk from Holland zoomed past him on the main straight . |
4 | Talk of the Rector and his unruly family , of her wild Harry 's doings at Oxford , of the poor hunting season it had been , all flowed between her and Aunt Emily and when she rose to go , and Alexandra held out her hand in farewell , Mrs Burrows stalked past her to the door as if she had no more real existence than an armchair . |
5 | With as much dignity as she could muster , she stalked past him into the bathroom . |
6 | She tiptoed past them to the chest of drawers , took out a pair of shorts and a sweatshirt and slipped back downstairs to the kitchen . |
7 | Then she jumped up from the bed before he could grab her again and darted past him to the window . |
8 | ‘ So since he asked for you again , ’ Charlie went on as she climbed past him into the back of the cab , ‘ make sure that whatever you did for him , you just keep on doing it . ’ |
9 | Three or four cars wheezed past us on the dusty road . |
10 | ‘ Are you married ? ’ he said at once , head turned toward the din from his workmen as he stepped past me over the rubble and put a key into the lock of the , I should have thought , not yet apt to be plundered building . |
11 | He stepped past her into the room , then turned to face her , his face set in uncompromising lines . |
12 | As the woman 's mouth sagged open Polly walked past her to the door . |
13 | Daniel told Cardiff Crown Court his father walked past him on the stairs after getting a knife from the kitchen . |
14 | He looked around him , aware of the traffic speeding up and down , of the people who walked past him on the pavement , of people coming out of McDonalds laden with fast food . |
15 | She walked past him to the door , and though he followed and came quickly up to her side he did not again offer her his hand . |
16 | She walked past him into the tiny hallway and picked up her bags , noticing with relief that he was n't around when she fled up the narrow wooden stairs to one of the three bedrooms , the one furthest away from his . |
17 | She walked past him into the room , which was very similar to her own in style , but which bore the unmistakably masculine stamp of its occupant . |
18 | She walked past him into the big sitting-room and he followed her , lounging insolently against the door-frame as once more his eyes seemed to strip her . |
19 | ‘ Thank you , ’ she said levelly as she walked past him through the door he held open . |
20 | Although Gemmill 's goal was voted the best in the tournament , the sight of a mesmerised Alan Rough watching in disbelief as a Peruvian free kick flew past him into the net will remain one of Argentina 's most bleak moments . |
21 | He strode past her into the hall . |
22 | He strode past her into the hall and flicked a glance around . |
23 | Then , stretching out one hand , he pushed her very gently to one side and strode past her into the living-room . |
24 | Old Ape ambled past him on the way to the back door for his dinner and his scraps , carrying a red plastic bucket . |
25 | He looked past her beyond the stairs into a kitchen . |
26 | He swallowed and , keeping his head low , looked past her at the girls . |
27 | Her pulses racing , she looked past him to the dizzy drop through the hole in the cliff , to the sea below . |
28 | He seemed a little tense , and looked past me at the bedroom door ; and I was reminded of that first day . |
29 | ‘ Kerry was in front of me at the start and I went past her on the second mile , ’ she said . |
30 | Corbett stared past her at the timbered house . |